Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka

by Stanley Corngold

Book Overview

On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story "The Judgment," which came out of him "like a regular birth." This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. Thereafter, the search of many of his characters for the Law, for a home, for artistic fulfillment can be understood as a figure for Kafka's own search to reproduce the ecstasy of a single night.

In Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691127808
• ISBN13: 9780691127804
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"